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List of code number used by the US intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War Two. Assignment of a number did not necessarily mean an individual was an officer of agent of the OSS.[1] Designations beginning with the letter K were used to denote sources shared with the British to avoid duplicate reporting.[2]
List
- 104 Ferdinand Lammot Belin[1]
- 105 Col. David K. E. Bruce
- 106 Col. G. Edward Buxton
- 109 William J. Donovan
- 110 Allen W. Dulles[3]
- 111 Thomas G. Early
- 112 Henry Field
- 113 M. Preston Goodfellow
- 114 Harold Guinsburg
- 115 M
- 116 William A. Kimbel (Rhythm)
- 117 William L. Langer
- 119 Captain Stacy Lloyd
- 120 James R. Murphy
- 124 Spencer Phenix
- 125 DeWitt Poole
- 128 Lane Rehm
- 130 Atherton Richards
- 131 T.S Ryan
- 132 Robert E. Sherwood
- 133 James Warburg
- 136 John C. Wiley
- 140 Hugh R. Wilson[1]
- 146 Fisher Howe
- 148 William B. Maddox Jr.[4]
- 154 Whitney H. Shepardson[3] (Jackpot)[4]
- 158 John D. Wilson
- 180 Francis Burke
- 224 Russell D'Oench
- 226 Pierre Dupont
- 227 Charles B. Dyar
- 235 W. Arthur Roseborough (Cantab)
- 240 John A. Bross
- 244 Fredrick J. Stalder
- 251 Arthur Raymond Lewis
- 257 Robert P. Joyce (also 1090)[4]
- 284 Max Shoop[3] (Mike)[4]
- 284-A A source with French contacts
- 284-B A French network headed by an army officer.
- 284-C A source that headed a network in northern France.
- 284-D A source with contacts in France.
- 284-E A network in southeastern France.
- 284-F A network of French officers with contacts in France.
- 284-G The 284 network's liason with Swiss intelligence.
- 284-H A source in Geneva (Spinster).
- 296 Michel Brault (Jerome)[4]
- 300 Col. Ellery Huntington
- 304 George Pratt
- 305 Arthur Goldberg[3]
- 308 George K. Bowden
- 313 A source on communist and Soviet affairs.
- 321 Evert Smits (Sanders; also 843)
- 328 A German, French or Alsation source in Switzerland with a labour/socialist background; key contact with French exiles in New York (possibly known as Antoine or René; possibly Berthelot)
- 331 A Swiss source[4]
- 334 William A. Eddy[3]
- 339 A source on Austria
- 356, 357, 358 William A. Eddy
- 387 Donald Downes
- 394 Noel H. Field[4]
- 399 Gerhard Van Arkel[3]
- 399-A A network reporting to Van Arkel from Belfort.
- 399-B Certain German and Austrian internees in Switzerland.
- 399-D An Austrian socialist group.
- 399-E A counter-espionage source.[4]
- 399-F A counter-espionage source
- 399-G German socialists
- 399-H A Swiss businessman
- 399-I A Hungarian group
- 399-J An Austrian source
- 399-K A railway union source
- 399-N German social democrat with German railway worker contacts.
- 401 Micha Perez (Pam)
- 402 Reported on Holland in 1943
- 403 Reported on France in 1943
- 404 Reported on France in 1943
- 405 Philippe Monod (Martel)
- 406 Reported on Greece in 1943
- 407 Count Henri Marone
- 408 Reported on France in 1943
- 409 Mike's lady friend, L., and her group
- 409-B Reported on Germany, Austria, and Alsace in 1943
- 410 Reported in France in 1943
- 411 Source on Germany and the Balkans
- 412 Reported to OSS in Geneva
- 433 Lieutenant A. Doster Jr
- 441 Major Valerian Lada-Mocarski
- 442 Captain Otto C. Doering
- 445 Kenneth H. Baker
- 450 Lieutenant Colonel B.A.C. Sweet-Escott[5]
- 452 Robert D. Murphy][3]
- 470 A source involved in French prisoner-of-war relief
- 472 Elements of prewar French intelligence located in Switzerland. Sometimes used to refer to an individual.
- 473 A French source.
- 474 Dr W.A. Visser't Hooft
- 475 Ignazio Silone (Frost, Len, Tulio, Mr. Behr)[5]
- 476 Gero von Schulze Gaevernitz[3]
- 477 Royall Tyler (Anderson)
- 478 Josef Wirth
- 479 Robert Chi
- 480 Hans Klein
- 481 Louis Cruvilier
- 482 A source on Germany
- 483 A female source with an Airedale named Durban; number reassigned to an expert on Italy in 1943.
- 484 A source reporting on Italy.
- 485 Baron Michael Goden[5]
- 486 Walter Bringolf
- 487 Dr. Hans Opracht[6]
- 488 Dr. Carl Jung[3]
- 489 Romanescu; also Donald Lowrie
- 490 Walter Bovari
- 491 Gheorghi Kiosseivanov
- 492 René Charron (Boatman)
- 492-A A source who interviewed persons at refugee camps in Switzerland.
- 493 Frederick R. Loofbourow (Blew)
- 494 A German woman in Switzerland (Hawkins)
- 495 Gregoire Gafencu (Gobey)
- 496 Maurice Villars
- 497 A Polish source; possibly Captain Szczesny Chojnacki, intelligence officer, Polish legation in Bern
- 498 An unofficial representative of the Czech government in Switzerland (Simpson)
- 499 A French resistance figure (Stanislas)
- 500 Franz Boergler
- 501 Ivan Pavelic
- 502 Prince Alois von Auersperg, German Assistant Air Attaché
- 503 King Boris of Bulgaria. Number reassigned to Fritz Weston, Austrian industrialist.
- 504 Buroff, former foreign minister of Bulgaria (Ben)
- 505 AJ
- 506 Egidio Reale (Drumbee)
- 507 AC
- 508 Robert Bratschi (Itchy, Moe)
- 510 Count Carlo Sforza
- 511 Swiss Intelligence Service;[3] General Masson, Chief of Swiss intelligence (Bones)[6]
- 512 Hans Bernd Gisevius[3]
- 513 A Polish source
- 514 François Bondy
- 515 Maximilian Egon Hohenlohe von Lagensberg
- 516 General Davet (René, Iris)
- 517 Henri Frenay (Brake, Tavernier)[6]
- 518 Marcel Pilet-Golaz[3]
- 519 George Barcza[6]
- 520 Brig. Gen. Bernwell Legge
- 521 British intelligence in Switzerland
- 523 Henry Hyde[3]
- 540 Lieutenant Graveson (USNR)
- 550 Lanning McFarland (Packy)[6]
- 621 Head of British SIS in Switzerland
- 643 Eduard Schulte
- 644 Thomas H. McKittrick
- 645 British SOE in Switzerland
- 659 Admiral Wilhelm Canaris
- 660 Adriano Olivetti
- 674 Fritz Kolbe (George Wood), also assigned number 805[3]
- 676 Another Schulte contact in Switzerland.
- 677 Employed by OSS in Switzerland.[7]
- 678 Gerald Mayer[3]
- 679 C. Tracy Barnes
- 680 Josef Johan
- 681 M.Z.D. Dragoutinovitch
- 682 A representative of the Partito d'Azione who came to Switzerland from Italy in September 1943.
- 683 Another representative of the Partito d'Azione who came to Switzerland from Italy in September 1943.
- 684 Baron George Bakach-Bessenyey
- 685 An Italian opposition figure who had left the Cabinet for exile in in the 1920s.
- 686 Raoul Bossy
- 690 Ignazio Silone (also 475)
- 691 Reported on Nazi/Croat forces in 1943.
- 706 An OSS officer at Bern.
- 738 Reported on France in 1944.
- 759 Reginald C. Foster (Regis)[7]
- 760 Col. Edward J. F. Glavin[3]
- 774 Emilio Q. Daddario (Hearn)
- 800 Adam von Trott zu Solz
- 801 A prominent German Catholic
- 802 Devignat, French source.
- 803 M, A back door channel to Swiss intelligence
- 804 Bombassei)[7]
- 805 Fritz Kolbe (George Wood); also assigned number 674[3]
- 809 Donald Jones
- 812 Count Massimo Magistrati (Dan)
- 813 Jacini
- 814 Don Sturzo
- 815 Professor V.F. Wagner
- 816 Donald Downes
- 817 George Richter
- 820 Joseph Modigliani
- 821 A prominent German Catholic
- 822 Richard Quant
- 824 Professor Mooser
- 826 Damiani, representative in Switzerland of the Italian resitance movement Motta[7]
- 827 Professor Paul Scherre[3] (Flute)[7]
- 828 Klaus Wittig
- 829 John Madonne][7]
- 830 Otto Braun
- 831 W.D. a German labour leader
- 832 V.B. a German labour leader
- 833 G.R. a German labour leader
- 834 Linder, an Austrian source
- 835 Weigl
- 836 Dr Wilhelm Abegg
- 837 Johannes Schwartzenberg
- 838 Krauel, the German Consul General in Geneva.
- 839 General Henri Guisan
- 840 Franz Josef Messner (Diana, Oysters)
- 842 Westrick
- 843 Evert Smits (Sanders, also 321)
- 844 Rakolczai, Hungarian military attaché in Bern
- 845 Jaksekovic
- 848 Reported on German troop movements in 1944
- 849 Nerdrum, Norwegian press attaché in Bern
- 850 Former physician to French Premier Daladier
- 901 Rodrigo
- 913 Daniel McCarthy
- 930 Lieutenant Commander Thomas Cassady (Climax)
- 945 Reported on Italy in 1945
- 949 Homer Hall (Gadfly)
- 971 Dr Walter C. Langsam
- 1004 An OSS staff member in Geneva in 1945.
- 1049 Emmy C. Rado
- 1090 Robert P. Joyce (also 257)
- K-1 French intelligence officer in Switzerland
- K-2 French intelligence officer in Switzerland; reported on Italy.
- K-3 Swiss intelligence officer who provided the US Military Attaché in Switzerland with battle order information.
- K-6 An Austrian contact.
- K-7 Same as 662
- K-13 SIM (Italian Intelligence Service)
- K-23 Headquarters of the CNL resistance movement in Milan
- K-24 A German source
- K-27 Category for reports from the Us Military Attaché's office in Bern.
- K-28 Fritz Molden, Austrian source (Gerhard Weiser)
- K-29 Source Navik of Basel][2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Allen Welsh Dulles, Neal H. Petersen, From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945, Penn State Press, 1996, p.543.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Allen Welsh Dulles, Neal H. Petersen, From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945, Penn State Press, 1996, p.549.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 Terms, Names, Organizational Abbreviations, and Code Words in OSS Records, www.archives.org, accessed 11 April 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Allen Welsh Dulles, Neal H. Petersen, From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945, Penn State Press, 1996, p.544. Cite error: Invalid
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